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Re: OK let's fantasize...if you won the lottery
1. I wouldn't tell a soul.
2. Buy my mom a decent place to live and get her services to make her daily life much easier.
3. Buy a place to live somewhere warm, where people are friendly, speak English, with a good public school system, and where I can work and get the hell up outta Deutschland.
4. Save a couple million for DD's future college education because I'm convinced that's how much it would cost by then.
Pay off our mortgage, my H's parents' mortgage, and our second car. Dump our first car (2002 Jetta wagon) in favor of something much more awesome. Invest, etc.
Removate the crap out of our house (1901 four square). Add on to the kitchen, add a sun room, finish the walkup unfinished attic, add a bathroom (as of now it's just one bath, and it's upstairs).
Buy a house in a kickass city, like San Francisco. Big enough to have friends and family come stay all the time.
Donate at least a million to animal rescue. Probs half would go to our local shelter (Pets Without Parents) and the other half to our greyhound rescue.
Send my parents on a trip to Europe. Neither has ever left North America, and Dad has always wanted to see Slovakia, where his grandparents were born. Mom has always wanted to see Scotland and Germany, where her grandparents were born.
Fund my grandfather's nursing home for as long as necessary. He's an amazing guy and deserves the absolute best.
Quit this shittastic job.
Help my brother to be more financially secure (he's a grad student which = poor).
Definitely hire someone to clean our house and take care of our pets when we feel like traveling or even just being out late. Also, get a plane so we can take our dogs everywhere we feel like going.
Travel. Spain, France, Switzerland, South America, etc.
Buy a house in a remote part of Spain to go hide out sometimes. I spent a month in Garrovillas when I was 17 and would kill to live there.
Dedicate the rest of my life to animal welfare/rescue pursuits. Especially close to my heart are Spain's galgos (don't read this if you don't feel like sobbing) and the work of the group Dogs Deserve Better.
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Ok, this is way more fun.
I dont have any debt, no desire to own a house, and no plans for children. Id take off and live with my best friend from college in Argentina while I get my life together.
Ive been wanting a Dior handbag, some really nice shoes, and I would get in shape with a super hot trainer and eating healthy expensive foods. My parents and grandparents dont have debt so Id give them fun money to blow as well as my brother.
Id give scholarship money to all of the work study students that I have ever known. I want a motorcycle. Id travel of course.
i'd buy a new car (most likely a Pilot), pay off our other car and pay off our house. then we'd probably level our house and build something better designed with a better layout. i really love our neighborhood so i don't want to move.
after loading up the kids' college funds, i don't know what else i would do. other than buy DH the Dave Grohl eddition guitar he's always drooling after, that is.
If I were still at my old firm, I'd take a sh!t on the managing partner's desk and hope he was able to read between the logs. I feel you on the sh!tty bosses thing.
LOL! That's pretty much what groomy said I should do if we won Mega Millions.
BTW, what happened to the SBP name? Did I miss something?
I'd pay off our debts (real estate, car, some credit cards) first and then sit on the rest for a little while before I made any moves. Then I'd set up a college fund for my nephew's kids and for a friend's kids (the friends kids have grown up poor and education would make a huge difference to them and their future generations). After that, I'd set up a self perpetuating, merit-based college scholarship for kids who go to rural highschools.
I'd also buy a condo in San Francisco, one in Seattle, and then my husband and I would travel all over the world.
This.
Then, I would buy the Prius V of my dreams. I'd pay off my parents' house for them. I'd also buy some really fancy top of the line equipment for my dad's dental office.
I would hire a maid. I'd buy a house that was slightly bigger than our current house, with a room dedicated to Pilates equipment, which I would also buy with my winnings. I'd start working with my Pilates instructor 7 days a week instead of 4, in her studio in group classes. The home equipment would be for me to use whenever I wanted.
I don't think I'd want to travel more than I do right now, but I would never, ever fly in coach again. Not ever.
The rest would go into a foundation and I would turn running the foundation into my full time "job."
The BNOTB thing freaked me out. I guess it's weird that that's what did it, but it is. I miss my screen name though. I liked it. Which is why I don't believe the people who say, "I don't need an AE to harass the sh!t out of someone. I'm a badass and I'd do it under my own handle." Not if you like your handle and the sh!t you say could get you Banned.
I would donate it all to my amazing employer!
*Looks around* are they gone? Ok.
I would probably go into hiding. No lie.
(the crying is not from laughter.)
we have 2 seats and a booster in the back of a CRV and i'm about to lose my everloving mind.
I'd pay off my undergrad debt, my SO's med school debt, and my parents and grandparent's mortgages. Then I would buy myself a beach house and while waiting for it to close, get some lipo so I'd look good lounging on the beach.
THank you
My local TV station did a poll on their FB page about what you would do if you won the mega millions and I was just hoping someone would say that.
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
-Pay off all debt (cars, student loans ect)
-Buy a house cash. Nothing huge or gaudy, but something with a little land would be ideal. Probably something like this where I could have horses:
http://www.horsepropertybook.com/productdetail.php?la=EN&per=mrmls&xml=1&back1=%2Fpersonal%2F1%2FsearchResults.do%3Bjsessionid%3D044733A423DD78738E40F25DE712E808%3Fc_garage%3D%26rpp%3D15%26c_mrci%3D10000048183%26searchId%3D0%26xml%3D1%26c_year-built%3D%26cu%3DUSD%26c_horse%3Don%26featured_int%3D0%26minlsurface%3D6000%26c_zipcode%3D%26c_type%3D%26per%3Dmrmls%26c_mtype%3Dres%26la%3DEN%26ssid%3D0%26serverId%3D0%26st%3D0&of=93849268
-Buy a horse or two
-Pay for my sister's college
-Pay off Dyls parents house
-Put money aside for our neice and nephews college education
-Buy myself a new car (SO ready to part with my little Corrolla)
-Travel, travel and more travel. Probably take a good 4-6 months and just travel the world.
-Put money aside to pay for our early retirement and kids college
-Donate the rest. It would be hard to decide what goes where, but I would not want to hang on to that kind of money.
Butternut just killed me on the lacefront wigs. LMAO
I would...
1) Call a lawyer to set up education trusts for my kids and my nieces and nephews.
2) Call my financial planner and found out to have me some Mitt Romney and Warren Buffett perpetual money.
3) Give a nice donation to my church.
4) Pay off student loan debt.
5) Possibly consider buying another house. I actually really like my neighbors, so it wouldn't really benefit me to move. But, I'd probably pay down the mortgage considerably. Maybe I'd just buy a new house and let my sister have my old digs.
6) Buy a beachfront property and a cabin in the Smokies. Then I could always rent both of those bad boys out to a prop management company to earn some extra money.
7) Give my friends some money. Not sure how much. But I've got a few friends who have been there for me when I needed them most and you had better believe I'd slide them some money.
8) Give my sisters some money. Again - not sure how much, I'd need to consult my financial planner.
What I wouldn't do
1) Tell my family. If I could get that money without a soul knowing I had it, TRUST, wouldn't anyone know but me and Jesus. And he ain't tellin'.
2) Buy new cars. I love my Insight. I have no need for a fancy gas guzzlin' luxury car.
After doing all the responsible stuff of paying off our debt, our family's debt, adding to the kid's college fund, etc, I would in no particular order:
Go buy that damned Chanel purse I've been coveting forever and a day. (Years, forever and a day).
Get us out of this tiny condo and into a real, proper house
Get H a new ride (nothing extravagant, but he's driving a 2004 Civic with well over 100K miles. He often talks about getting an Accord, so have at it, dude).
I'd stop writing for other people and start writing for myself.
I'd make sure Kiddo's elementary, middle and high school tuitions are paid for too (Have you seen the public schools in FL?)
I don't know that I'd really change a whole lot of things in our lives, I'd just try to make some things better for all of us without going to extremes (Except for the Chanel bag. I don't think anyone needs a 5K purse. I just flippin want one and that's the one frivolous treat I think I'd get myself).
Yes,I'm smiling...I'm a marathoner!
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CO Nestie Award Winner-Prettiest Brain-Back to Back!
2011 Bests
5K-22:49 10K-47:38 Half Mary-1:51:50
2012 Race Report
1/1-New Year's 5K-22:11
2/11-Sweetheart Classic 4-mile-29:49
3/24-Coulee Chase 5K-21:40
5/6-Colorado Marathon-4:08:30
5/28-Bolder Boulder 10K
Oh, and I would buy a flat in Paris like this:
http://www.myflatinparis.com/en/apartments-view-Family-champs-Elysees-Etoile-La-Defense-177.htm
ME TOO!!!
I mean, seriously, with $150 million, I might save $50 million. The rest is going to straight to have fun with!! I'd spend another $50 million giving to friends and family.
So I'm going to have fun with $50 million. I'd buy a waterfront cottage somewhere in southern ON, so its still close to my friends. That would become my summer home. I'd buy 'winter' homes in Hawaii (probably Maui) maybe San Diego, Cabo and spend a lot of time travelling around the world.
I'd have a live-in maid/nanny who would travel with us - actually - probably 2 so they can alternate and not get overworked. I love to cook but I'd still have a professional chef to make me healthy meals when I don't want to cook.
I'd for SURE have a personal trainer at my home gym - and that would be something DH would love to.
Just the interest off the $50 million I saved would pay all these salaries and my lifestyle maintenance annually. It would be awesome.
OH! And I'd totally give random awesome people money. Like my fave people at Starbucks.
Oh, and since we don't have a decent Starbucks in my town, If I stayed here, I'd buy one so we do.
First thing I'd do is call and set up our frozen embryo transfer so we can try for baby #2.
2nd I'd pay off my student loans, I'd start putting what I was paying into savings every month
I'd put a chunk into savings to buy a new to us van/larger SUV when/if we have baby #2.
I'd take what was left and invest it.
OMG, i totally forgot about something I've said I'd do for a long time.
We have no animal shelter in my town. I'd build a state-of-the-art one with amazing staff and fully fund them so they would always be operational.
First thing I would do is sit my happy ass down in front of my financial planner and let her figure out how to set up trusts, etc, because I'm guessing my checking account is not the best place for $150 million.
Second, we'd half the money. $75 million for H and I. $75 million would split in to two trusts for our parents (so roughly $37.5 million for each of them to retire/pay off mortgages, etc).
Third, we'd do the responsible pay off the mortgage/SL/car (only he has a car payment).
After that? We'd both keep working. We love our jobs, and neither of us want to stop working. We'd let the money work for us, knowing we wouldn't have to worry about money anymore.
But oh, we would travel. A lot.
We would be box holders at Auburn football games, and not just regular season ticket holders.
And Planned Parenthood would be getting a massive donation.
You totally could
I'm very thankful for Radians.
1) MrP goes in on Monday and tells this job to shove it.
2) I stay here while we see the financial planners and lawyers and whatnot, if only to hold onto our insurance.
3) Pay off the house, debts, etc. and start the rest of the money to making enough to live on forever. Enter some giving in here, to people we know and people we don't.
4) MrP gets working on The Brewery.
5) Start plans on The Dream House in south county.
6) Eventually I quit and run the books for The Brewery.
7) Us, the kid, and the dogs spend our days hanging around The Brewery until we go home to The Dream House.
ETA: I just realized, this is the plan whether we win the lotto or not. The lotto just accelerates the timeline.